News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jason A. Muskey, age 39, of Moosic, Pennsylvania was sentenced on Friday, Oct. 30, 2015, to 11 years in federal prison by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, for diverting...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Adam Michael Cornelison, 26, resident of Anchorage, Alaska, pleaded guilty on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015, to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c).
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, along with Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), Sens. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.), and Rep. Reid Ribble (R-Wis.), traveled Friday through Sunday to Guatemala and Honduras on a bipartisan, bicameral congressional delegation to see firsthand the factors that incentivize migration from Central America to the U.S.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, along with Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), Sens. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.), and Rep. Reid Ribble (R-Wis.), traveled Friday through Sunday to Guatemala and Honduras on a bipartisan, bicameral congressional delegation to see firsthand the factors that incentivize migration from Central America to the U.S.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: The FAA and general aviation (GA) group’s #FlySafe national safety campaign aims to educate the GA community on how to prevent Loss of Control (LOC) accidents this flying season.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough has ordered Charles Raymond Schrode, (SHROH-dee) 33, of Springfield, Ill., to serve 25 years in federal prison for sexual exploitation of a minor and receiving and possessing child pornography. Schrode’s sentencing hearing concluded late Friday, Oct. 30, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles company has paid $4 million to resolve civil allegations that it fraudulently overcharged the U.S. military for fresh fruits and vegetables that it supplied to military dining facilities and Navy ships in Southern California. As part of a second agreement with criminal prosecutors, Coast Produce Company will implement various measures to ensure the company complies with its legal obligations.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Employer name: M&A Excavating LLC, at 120 Lyons Road in Mertztown, Pennsylvania.
By State Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks in the House of Representatives in support of H. Res. 293, expressing concern over anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incitement within the Palestinian Authority...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Office of the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California announced today that it is seeking applications for two Reentry and Prevention Outreach Coordinators to work in the Sacramento and Fresno offices to help in the development and implementation of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Smart on Crime initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Robert Wraldo Duncan, Jr., 66, of Tatum, N.M., made his initial appearance this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., on a criminal complaint charging him with violating the federal narcotics trafficking laws. Duncan is being held pending a preliminary hearing and detention hearing scheduled for Nov. 4, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced that Roger Perkins, age 33, formerly of Methuen, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 147 months in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 28 grams or more of cocaine base (“crack"), possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Perkins pleaded guilty to the charges on July 21, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Louisville, Ky. - The owner of the shuttered Preston Farms Popcorn, LLC (Preston) pleaded guilty to bank fraud today, before Chief Judge Joseph H. McKinley, Jr., in U.S. District Court, for diverting buyers’ payments toward the operation of his business rather than towards the payment of his loan, announced U.S. Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: GRAND COULEE, Wash. - The Bureau of Reclamation is seeking public comments to identify issues and concerns to be addressed in an Environmental Assessment for a proposed Drum Gate Maintenance Structure at Grand Coulee Dam. Reclamation will use the public feedback to help develop alternative options and analyze the environmental impacts of the proposal.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today, Senior United States District Judge W. Earl Britt sentenced SHAWNTANNA LEMARUS THOMPSON, 27, of Goldsboro, to 120 months imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release. On Aug. 3, 2015, THOMPSON pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute a quantity of marijuana and to felon in possession of a firearm charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ALLAH JUSTICE MCQUEEN OF Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Shira A. Scheindlin to 15 months in prison. MCQUEEN pled guilty on July 6, 2015, to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of wire fraud in connection with his participation in a scheme that targeted and victimized elderly people across New York.
By State Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) today announced the following staff appointments...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: WICHITA FALLS, Texas - Doty Lee Standridge, 31, of Wichita Falls, Texas, was sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to 110 months in federal prison following his guilty plea in June 2015 to one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man found in possession of heroin in April 2015 pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Cordell Lopasker McCarrall, Jr., 21, pleaded guilty in federal court in Huntington, West Virginia, to possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Reclamation announced today that it has released the Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact on the Cattleman’s Ditches Pipeline Project located in Montrose County, Colorado.
